COVID-19 in India: fact-check, and looking beyond headlines
Here is a look beyond a topics making headlines and a few facts. Headline : "India is struggling to vaccinate its people against COVID-19" India is indeed struggling to vaccinating a nation of 1.3 billion... but think of the scale and success thus far As of mid-May 2021, India has already vaccinated 16 crore (160 million) people till date. Let this number sink in for a moment.. That's entire population of Russia and half the population of USA, 2.5 times of UK. 7 times Australia and 34 times New Zealand. Headline : Bodies are seen floating in Ganga, Yamuna Ganga and Yamuna have historically been among the most polluted rivers in the world. Manmade pollution includes bodies and human remains from scores of burning ghats along the river banks. As per this article "Old Photos of Dead Bodies Floating in Ganga Passed Off as Recent" The most polluted river Yamuna | My India 2014 A River about to Die - Yamuna River Project - 2014 Unnao dead bodies...